Ivorypress presents Concrete Island, a project by Dionisio González

On May 29, 2019 Ivorypress presents, in the PhotoEspaña Off festival, Concrete Island, a project by Dionisio González.

Dionisio González, Nautacitè, 2018. Image courtesy of Ivorypress.

The exhibition on Dionisio González, open to the public until July 27, brings together a series of works that study the aspects and dystopic consequences of architectural impulses disseminated by Europe in the early fifties.

Description of project by Ivorypress

In a difficult post-war context and with the ideas of the modern movement stalled after having caused a disturbing break with traditional architecture, a new generation of architects and urban planners designed an alternative city that frequented the technological achievements of the war industry and aerospace research , responding to the profound changes in society due to the social, cultural, economic and political crisis.

After an exercise in social and constructive utopia, the brutalist ideologies became dysfunctional due to the monolithic use of concrete, its sensory hardness and the crime rate that took hold in blind spaces, corridors and corridors. Part of its failure is also due to the disconnection with the urban environment, which it tries to replace with self-sufficient gestures, and the conversion of these large structures into self-excluding ghettos as the middle and affluent classes of these residential communes move away.

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Woog house C5, 2018. Image courtesy of Ivorypress.

Losey House, 2018, by Dionisio González. Image courtesy of Ivorypress.

Trans Acciones 13, 2018. Image courtesy of Ivorypress.

Concrete Island by Dionisio González. Image courtesy of Ivorypress.

Dionisio González. Portrait. Photograph by Ricardo Aussó. Courtesy of Ivorypress.

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Dionisio Gonzalez

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PhotoEspaña Off festival.

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May 29 - July 27, 2019

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Ivorypress. Aviador Zorita 46-48 28020 Madrid, Spain.

DIONISIO GONZÁLEZ

Dionisio González (Gijón, Spain. 1965) is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Sevilla. Throughout his artistic career he has received numerous awards such as the Leonardo Scholarship, BBVA Foundation for Researchers and Cultural Creators (2016/2018), National Prize for Engraving, Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engraving (2015) or Winner of European Month of Photography Arendt Award, Luxembourg, Paris, Berlin, the Pilar Juncosa Prize and Sotheby's of the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró or the Arendt European Photography Award in 2013.

His work is present in museums such as the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA. or the National Center of Contemporary Art of Paris as well as in important private collections. He has also participated in the ARCO art fair in Madrid. He has exhibited his works by countless galleries and art centers located in cities around the world as the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico; JE JU BIENNALE. South Korea; Galerie Richard, New York, United States; Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany; ProjectB, Milan, Italy; Katz Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland; Maison Europenne of the Phothographie, Paris, France or The Colums Art Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Seoul, South Korea, among others.